The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-09
SOUTHERN eL.EANINGs.


ago from ambush near town. Several Of
LOgan's. followers who have been indicted
for supposed participation in the massacre,
are hiding near town heavily armed and
can not be arrested. Troops will leave
when court adjourns and it is expected
fighting will begin then.
Thomas G. Knott, alias Hanleighton, was
arrested recently in New Albany, Ind, on
a charge of using the United States mails
for fraudulent purposes. He sent two let.
ters to Sumterville Fla, offering to sell to
parties there a supply of ten dollar coun-
terfeit bills at big discount. The letters
were returned to the chief of police of New
| Albany, who arrested Knott when he went
to the post-office for his mail.
Judge Henry F. Cook a prominent mem
ber Of the Mississippi bar, died at his resi-
/ dence in Vicksburg, Miss, a few days ago,
after a long and painful illness, in his
| SEVENTEEN year. He was a Mexican vet
| eran, having served through that war with
distinction and received special mention
from the War Department He was First
Lieutenant in the Southern army from
Vicksburg in one of the companies of
| Colonel Jeff Davis celebrated First Mis-
sissippi Regiment.
The streets of Vicksburg, Miss, have
| been lettered and the houses numbered.
The new water-wOrks will be in operation
/ by December /.
Two opera-houses and several buildings
| were burned at Richmond, KY, few days
ago; loss, $4,000.
They had a pumpkin on show at Titus
vile, Fla, recently, that had a girth of
seven feet two inches, and weighed 130
pounds.
The authorities of Augusta, Ga, pro-
| hibited as sacrilegiOus the representation
of Christ and the Virgin in passion play
| by the colored people of that city.
| The flag that floated over the Marshall
| House in Alexandria, Va, in 1861, and
was indirectly the cause of the death Of
| Jackson and Ellsworth, is now in the State
Capitol at Albany, N. Y.
Some Georgia farmers have found that
this years watermelon crop has paid them
/ 800 per acre.
During the past seven months Governor
Gordon of Georgia has received six hun
dred applications for pardon. There is a
/ possibility that the next Legislature will
appoint a board of pardons to relieve the
i Governor.
Joseph Grammar, Of Montgomery, Ala,
has been arrested for bigamy. Joseph was
found to have four wives, all of whom are
/ living. One seldom sees q worse case of
bad Grammar.
William R. Grisby, the oldest member Of
the BardstOwn (Ky) bar, died at his
/ home, near that city a few Rights ago. He
was born in Nelson County, November IA,
1897.
The large amount of small change used
in paying off at the numerous works around
/ Admission, Ala, and now in demand to pay
! cOttOn-pickers in the country, places silver
money, ordinarily a burden to the banks,
almost at premium.
Out of the twenty-fiv persons who were
examined at Augusta, KY, recently, for
any grade certificate, only twelve succeed
ed in getting one. The result of this ex-
animation has caused considerable COM
ment from all sides of the community.
Many cases of sickness and several
deaths are reported from Thorne Grove,
Knox County, Tenn. They were caused
by people drinking water from a spring
into which the dead bodies of dogs had
been thrown.
Ex-President jefferson Davis has accept
ed the invitation to attend the State fair
in Macon, Ga, on October %. On that day
there will be a reunion of all the surviving
ex-Confederate soldiers who can get there.
The schooner Scotia, from New York,
with granite copings for the Mobile &
Birmingham railroad bridge at Jackson,
Ala, is supposed lost with all on board.
Brown Hal paced a mile in 2:13 at the
f.. Lexington (Ky.) Fairgrounds track, a few
days ago, beating Mazey CObb's record a
quarter of a second. Hal is by Tom
Hal, out of Eaton. He was driven by
John Bostwick, of Spring Hill farm,
Tennessee.
In the Rowan Circuit Court at More
head, KY, Pigman and Perry, charged
! with the murder of Craig TOlliver, were
I cleared after two hours deliberation by
the jury. Every thing at Morehead is
quiet, and no danger is apprehended from
| an outbreak.
A negro revival is in progress at Flat
Greek Church, at Homer, Ga. A few
nights ago George Sanders, a prominent
| white man, being intoxicated, took possess
| sion of the pulpit for the purpose of
preaching. His father-in-law, Mr.. VIM.
Sailors, followed him and succeeded in
| getting him away. Sanders then turned
around and stabbed his father-in-law
! fatally.
A South Florida town has young lady
/ postmistress. She recently complained to
! an inspector that stamps were bought
from her and then letters mailed on the
| train, thus robbing her of the fee of can
| collation.. Long did she revolve various
| schemes to prevent this, and finally she
cancelled the stamps when sold, and as
| they were good nowhere else the letters
bearing them were dropped in at her office.
| This is a new way to remedy an old evil.
| 1t is reported that the East Tennessee,
! Virginia & Georgia Company has about
completed arrangements for adding over
| two hundred miles to their already ex-
tensive system of road. One line will be
/
Emery Gap, one hundred and fifty miles,
and another from Clinton, twenty miles
/ north of Knoxville, on the Knoxville &
Ohio Division, % CUberland Gap, a dis
| tance of sixty miles. Another line is also
contemplated from Emery Gap to South
Pittsburg, through Sequatchie Valley.
A movement is said to be on foot in
/ North Carolina to coIonize colored people
in California. Homes for 10000 are guar
anteed free. It is represented that $4,000
acres of rich land have been secured,
/ which will be given to those who go. Meet
| ings are advertised to be held at the county
! towns of Pell, Martin, Pasquotank, Chow
an, Beauford, Richmond, Bladen, Wilson
! Edgecomb and lie noir during the month.
/ Leading colored orators are among the
! speakers.
Recent rains have revived things.
! The directors of the Piedmont (Ga.) E1-
! position have sent 300 invitations to the
! Veteran association in the Northwest,
urging the old soldiers who fought between
/ Chattanooga and Atlanta to revisit the
/ battle-felds during the first week of the
exposition, beginning October 10.
! Cherokee County, Ala, boasts of a negro
/ who, at the age of one hundred and four
/ years, has been converted and baptized.
/ The negro was formerly a slave of Mr.. j.
! A. Bale, of Rome. He never took any
stock in any of the reIig gious meetings un til
/ recent one sprung up in this neighbor-
hood, when he Professed a change of
heart.
A watermelon show was one of the re-
cent attractions at Nashville, Tenn.
/ Mr.. Noah Kendall, an old and prominent
/ farmer, died suddenly a few days ago near
/ Shawhan, XIV, from blood poisoning,
brought on by contact with poisonous oak,